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Composting Toilets For Water Conservation
Thu 20 Nov 2008 - 16:24
Composting Toilets For Water Conservation
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Henry_Allpas]Henry Allpas
When I was growing up conservation and preserving our environment actually meant something. It seems like since that time humanity has lost touch with the environment, myself included. Convenience has become more important that conservation. It is more convenient to put your garbage in one bag than it is separate your garbage into three for four bags like they do in Europe. It is more convenient to flush your toilet rather than compost your waste, or is it? It is no more difficult to use a composting toilet than a flush toilet, but I believe that there is a perception that composting toilets are not hygienic since your waste does not disappear down the drain. If used properly a composting toilet is very clean and hygienic. The great benefit of composting toilets is the amount of water it conserves; it does not require any water. The average flush toilet uses between 4 and 6 gallons of clean water per flush and in the average North American household 100,000 gallons of water are flushed down the toilet every year. Multiply that by the number of households in North America and you start to get a feel for how much water we are wasting.
Saving water is not the only benefit of having composting toilets. When the composting process has finished you can use the compost in your garden (if your local and state laws allow it) to grow more colorful flowers and more nutrient rich fruits and vegetables. When you use a composting toilet you are also reducing your impact by no longer contributing to a growing problem: ground water contamination. Our current sewage systems are not the most efficient systems in the world and they leak. Sometimes lines break and huge amounts of grey water enter the water table. With a composting toilet your waste starts and ends right where you live. The composting toilets are designed so that once the process is complete all potentially pathogenic microbes are immobilized and destroyed and you are left with nutrient rich soil.
The idea of composting toilets takes some getting used to and if their use becomes more widespread they may just be the water savior we have been looking for.
If you want to learn more about composting toilets or just composting general visit my website and join the movement to reduce, reuse and compost! http://www.bigsteamypile.com
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